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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep

Original title: Gojira, Ebirâ, Mosura: Nankai no daiketto
  • 19661966
  • PGPG
  • 1h 23m
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Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
A teen searching for his brother stows away on a criminal's boat that shipwrecks on Letchi island, where terrorists have enslaved the Infant Island natives. Discovering Godzilla asleep, they decide to awaken him to liberate the natives.
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A teen searching for his brother stows away on a criminal's boat that shipwrecks on Letchi island, where terrorists have enslaved the Infant Island natives. Discovering Godzilla asleep, they... Read allA teen searching for his brother stows away on a criminal's boat that shipwrecks on Letchi island, where terrorists have enslaved the Infant Island natives. Discovering Godzilla asleep, they decide to awaken him to liberate the natives.A teen searching for his brother stows away on a criminal's boat that shipwrecks on Letchi island, where terrorists have enslaved the Infant Island natives. Discovering Godzilla asleep, they decide to awaken him to liberate the natives.
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
5.5K
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POPULARITY
25,099
5,004
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    • Director
      • Jun Fukuda
    • Writer
      • Shin'ichi Sekizawa
    • Stars
      • Akira Takarada
      • Kumi Mizuno
      • Chôtarô Tôgin
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Jun Fukuda
    • Writer
      • Shin'ichi Sekizawa
    • Stars
      • Akira Takarada
      • Kumi Mizuno
      • Chôtarô Tôgin
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 82User reviews
    • 72Critic reviews

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    Tôru Ibuki, Kumi Mizuno, Hideo Sunazuka, Akira Takarada, Chôtarô Tôgin, and Tôru Watanabe in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
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    Kumi Mizuno, Chôtarô Tôgin, and Tôru Watanabe in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
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    Akihiko Hirata and Jun Tazaki in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)
    Tôru Ibuki, Akira Takarada, Chôtarô Tôgin, and Tôru Watanabe in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966)

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    Akira Takarada
    Akira Takarada
    • Yoshimura
    Kumi Mizuno
    Kumi Mizuno
    • Daiyo
    Chôtarô Tôgin
    Chôtarô Tôgin
    • Ichino
    Hideo Sunazuka
    • Nita
    Tôru Ibuki
    • Yata Kane
    Akihiko Hirata
    Akihiko Hirata
    • Captain Yamoto
    Jun Tazaki
    Jun Tazaki
    • Red Bamboo Commander
    Tôru Watanabe
    Tôru Watanabe
    • Ryôta Kane
    Ikio Sawamura
    Ikio Sawamura
    • Elderly Slave
    Pair Bambi
    Pair Bambi
    • Mothra's Little Beauties
    Hideyo Amamoto
    Hideyo Amamoto
    • Red Bamboo Naval Officer
    Hisaya Itô
    Hisaya Itô
    • Red Bamboo Scientist #1
    Tadashi Okabe
    • Red Bamboo Scientist #2
    Kazuo Suzuki
    Kazuo Suzuki
    • Escaped Slave
    Shôichi Hirose
    Shôichi Hirose
    • Escaped Slave
    Noriko Honma
    Noriko Honma
    • Spiritualist
    Chieko Nakakita
    Chieko Nakakita
    • Mrs. Kane
    Seiji Ikeda
    • Farmer
    • Director
      • Jun Fukuda
    • Writer
      • Shin'ichi Sekizawa
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      This film was originally written to star King Kong, as Rankin/Bass Productions had provided Toho with the license to Kong in order to produce a tie-in film for their cartoon TV series King Kong (1966). However, Rankin/Bass rejected the screenplay and Toho decided to simply replace Kong with Godzilla. That explains the behavior of Godzilla, such as: sleeping in a cave and being protective of the native girl Dayo. Toho would go on to co-produce with Rankin/Bass the film, King Kong Escapes (1967), which was more inline with what Rankin/Bass wanted.
    • Goofs
      At the end, as Mothra flies back to her island, the basket she's carrying with the humans inside is missing.
    • Quotes

      Daiyo: Mothra... Awaken, hear us.

    • Crazy credits
      For the Columbia/Tri-Star U.S. DVD release, which uses the original uncut Japanese version, the English language credits list the noted composer Masaru Satô as "Mararu Sato."
    • Alternate versions
      The original version featured a couple of scenes in which Ryota first goes to the Maritime Safety Office and then to a newspaper reporter to ask for help in locating Yata. It is while he is at the newspaper office that Ryota sees a poster on the wall about the dance contest.
    • Connections
      Edited into All Monsters Attack (1969)
    • Soundtracks
      Samashite Mosura
      (Mothra Awake)

      Written and Arranged by Masaru Satô

      Performed by Pair Bambi

    User reviews82

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    Top review
    7/10
    A good entry in the series
    This is one of the first Godzilla movies I saw, and when I see it now after seeing almost all of the other movies, it still holds up pretty well. The main problem is, of course, Ebirah. Definetly Godzilla's worst foe. I mean, really, A GIANT LOBSTER!? But, other than that, the film is quite good, following the usual trend that the Godzilla movies tend to have much better plots than their american counterparts of the time. Here we have a young man trying to find his brother taking his friends with him to look at boats. When they board one to look around, they find a man with a gun to greet them. He claims to be the owner and allows them to spend the night on the boat. When they wake up the next morning, however, the young man has taken the boat to find his brother. It's wrecked in a storm and they are stranded on an island where they discover a secret organisation called the Red Bamboo is using slave labor to make nuclear weapons. Ebirah, a giant lobster, prevents boats from entering or leaving the island, and Okondoru, a giant condor, prevents planes from arriving. The man who claimed to own the boat, Yoshimura, turns out to be both a thief and the most resourceful member of their little group (which now also includes an escaped slave played by the wonderful Kumi Mizuno). They discover that Godzilla is sleeping on the island, so they wake him up in order to stop the Red Bamboo. He trashes the base, defeats the two other, ahem, monsters, and the slaves and group are all saved by Mothra (who really isn't looking to good by now). The thief, Yoshimura, is definetly my favorite character in this, and the special effects are pretty good at times (he may be a pathetic monster, but Ebirah looks great). As a bonus, it also makes for a great MST3K episode.
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    • Release date
      • 1969 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Japan
    • Language
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
    • Production company
      • Toho Company
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    • Budget
      • $1,200,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 23 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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